This video presents 50 interesting and little-known facts on various topics, including science, history, and pop culture. The facts range from the brain responding to emotional pain like physical pain, to a species of fish that can live up to 1,200 meters below water, to a charity organization that gives over 95% of its proceeds to the poor. Other facts include the world's most expensive spice, the highest flying bird, and a hospital designed to resemble a luxury yacht. The video also covers unusual topics such as a funeral home that displays bodies in upright poses and a man who tied 1,000 balloons to an armchair in an attempt to break a world record.
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1. A 2011 study shows that the brain responds to emotional pain the same way it does to physical pain.
2. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant in the world and can grow up to 91 centimeters in a single day.
3. Marlon Brando's personal checks became collector's items because he didn't like to sign autographs.
4. There is an environmentally friendly spray-on coating called Starpath that makes pavement glow in the dark.
5. Ducks have accents, just like humans, and are influenced by their environment.
6. Lillian Weber makes a dress from scratch every day for a child in need through the organization Little Dresses for Africa.
7. Scientists at MIT designed a device called the FingerReader to help the blind read without Braille.
8. In 2011, a third of all divorce filings in the United States contained the word "Facebook."
9. There's a place in California called Glass Beach where smooth sea glass has developed from years of people dumping garbage.
10. Architects in Australia designed a concept home called the Cliff House that hangs off a cliff on the Australian southwest coast.
11. Germany is a graveyard for unexploded bombs left over from World War II, with an average of 2,000 tons of buried munitions discovered annually.
12. The Charbonnet Labat Funeral Home in New Orleans displays the bodies of the deceased in upright poses.
13. Apple generated $43.7 billion in sales in the first quarter of 2014, more than Google, Amazon, and Facebook combined.
14. The Hawaiian island of Niihau is also known as the Forbidden Island and is completely off-limits to everyone except the island's owners, relatives, and invited guests.
15. About 70% of the world's spice production comes from India.
16. New York City has the area code 212 because rotary phones were used at the time and the number uses the shortest dialing time.
17. In January 2013, the finance minister of Zimbabwe announced that his country had only $217 left in its bank account.
18. Mike Tyson was arrested 38 times by the time he was 13 years old.
19. Food for the Poor is a charity organization that gives over 95% of its proceeds to the poor.
20. President Andrew Jackson managed to pay off the United States' entire debt in 1835, which lasted exactly one year.
21. Marie Antoinette's last words were "Monsieur, I beg your pardon" as she apologized to her executioner after accidentally stepping on his foot on the way to the guillotine.
22. There's a popular tourist destination in Chongqing, China, where part of the pavement is devoted to cell phone users who are too busy to look at their screens.
23. Greenland allows its inmates huge liberties as part of its open prison system aimed at rehabilitating prisoners.
24. The world's ugliest animal is the blobfish, a deep-sea fish that can live anywhere between 600 and 1,200 meters below water.
25. According to a study conducted in 2012, people who complain actually live longer by about two years.
26. The highest flying bird in the world is the Ruppell's vulture, with confirmed evidence of one flying at an altitude of 11,300 meters above sea level.
27. Mu-Chi Sung developed a facial recognition software for cats in 2014 to help them maintain their goal weight.
28. Father Adelir de Carli of Brazil tied 1,000 balloons to an armchair in 2008 in an attempt to break the world record for the most hours flying with balloons.
29. Studies show that just one week of camping outdoors with only natural light is enough to reset the body's biological clock to normal sleep rhythms.
30. The Tesla Model S car aced all of its national highway traffic safety tests and is so safe that it actually broke the crash testing gear.
31. Pineapples were considered a status symbol in the 18th century and were seen as a symbol of wealth and power.
32. The word "electrocute" comes from the combination of "electro" and "execute," meaning death by electric shock.
33. A wild pig in Australia once stole 18 beers from some campers, got drunk, and then got into a fight with a cow.
34. Coca-Cola has made over 3,500 different kinds of beverages.
35. Fennec foxes mate for life, and the male foxes become especially aggressive towards each other when mating season approaches.
36. Russian billionaire Vasily Klyukin designed a hospital to resemble a luxury yacht called White Sails Hospital.
37. After Hurricane Katrina, the Emir of Qatar donated $100 million to help rebuild housing, hospitals, and schools.
38. The Ruppell's vulture is the highest flying bird in the world and has been recorded at an altitude of 11,300 meters above sea level.